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Luckily, there are recognizable warning signs, many experts agree. Ninety percent of suicidal teens are depressed, and depression tends to cause certain types of behavioral changes. "There's no one symptom that's going to leap out to a parent," says Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the author of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. "It's rather a whole cluster of changes in behavior and mood and sleep and eating patterns and energy levels." Professionals tell parents to look for dramatic changes in behavior or appearance, changes in weight, changes...
...would have thought that Time Warner (parent company of Time Inc., which publishes TIME) would be on its best behavior while awaiting regulatory approval for its mammoth merger with America Online. But in its effort to win an arm-wrestling match with Disney, TW displayed the attributes of some of its prize properties: the discretion of Jenny Jones, the gentleness of Tony Soprano...
...Parents used to worry about children staying out late for spring prom, worry they would start breeding, but I'll bet the kids in the limos are too smart to make babies. Much better to remain nubile for another 20 years, have romances with various inappropriate people, earn a bucket of money by hosting their own TV show or modeling underwear or e-trading, and live in a cool house and give awesome parties, and get a real life somewhere around the age of 35. They know the grief that children cause, having so recently caused it--the noise...
...father and his descent into Alzheimer's disease, frankly I figured the article would never appear. Too much of a downer. But it did (TIME, Aug. 30, 1999), and nine months later, I'm still hearing from readers. Many have written to console me with similar stories about their parents. One reader sent me cookies. Gil Morris, of Denton, Texas, sent me a song he had recorded about his mother called Her Broken Heart. Some wrote to tell me about families torn apart by the decisions of how to care for an aging parent; an awful lot had parents...
Students are "being asked to cover a vast amount of material," says Jackie Dee King, a parent whose two children boycotted the written test last month...